FLASH
Shkruar nga Pamfleti
After 6 months of effort, the show "Opinion" has managed to conduct an exclusive interview with former President of Kosovo Hashim Thaçi.
Surrounded by tight security, Thaçi answered journalist Blendi Fevziu's questions in writing. In his response, the former KLA leader talks about the war in Kosovo, his leadership positions, and the judicial process.
-How is your day in isolation for 6 years?
Hashim Thaçi: Currently, my mouth is closed to speak and my hands are tied to write what my heart wants and my mind says completely. In this difficult time, Blendi, I will try to do the best I can for the circumstances I find myself in. Serbia has been dealing with me – and has been dealing with me for a long time. It sentenced me in absentia to many years in prison. Continuously (1993–97) it raided the house, mistreated and arrested my father, mother, sister and brothers – in revenge it also executed Luma's brother, Haki, in the massacre in the village of Studime in Vushtrri in May 1999.
In June 1999, the war ended. It belonged to the world of surviving Albanians. Today my only “fault” is – why I am alive. I do not belong to the category of people who say that prison is for men, this expression seems annoying to me. I am not altruistic or ascetic. I have lived my life, I have not hidden from it. I have followed the rhythm of the marathon. My path was neither fate nor coincidence, it is a purpose that stems from the depths of my world, it is tangible and transparent. From an early age I had placed my entire being in the “function” of the idea of freedom.
Loneliness naturally gives me emptiness and offers futility. I try to give life to the environment in the cell. The 24 hours of the day and 365 days of the year are the same. The calendar meaning of life is lost. Days and nights seem to pass without dates. I have reflected on Kosovo, on Albania and the Albanians, on the behavior of the world at the beginning and end of the 20th century in relation to us. We often forget how humiliated and trampled upon we have been (often treated as Ottoman remnants), while today how high we are in the rise and consolidation process as a nation with Western thinking and status.
Freedom and prison never go together. It's not just the physical wall that separates them, but the emotion, the thinking, and the way you see, feel, and live the world. Isolation is a cage with no horizons and an elevator that physically climbs you and, believe me, can even blind you. Not in terms of the level of your diopter, but in terms of confusion, or the way you see things.
Paska mesuar te flase ne burg ky koketrashi. Eshte vone tani, mos beje gili-vili me serbet qe te ishe ne shtepi e jo burgjeve.